Great news – Dan Fill, Head of Multiplatform Production for ABC TV, will be speaking at the Future of Media Summit 2007 on the Sydney side, on our opening User Generated Content meets Mainstream Media panel. In this newly created role, Dan oversees the strategic development of multiplatform content creation experiences across all platforms. Prior […]
Today we ran a press briefing on the Future of Media Summit, featuring a sneak preview of some of the research and content that will be included in the Future of Media Report 2007. Last year the Future of Media Report 2006 attracted excellent interest, with now over 70,000 downloads. This year’s report should be […]
The Future of Media Summit 2007 is rapidly approaching. Lots of exciting developments lately on this – it promises to outdo the great success of the inaugural event last year. In particular, some recently confirmed speakers at both the Sydney and San Francisco sides of the event include: Anne-Marie Roussel, Director – Strategic and Emerging […]
Yahoo! has just announced a new product, SmartAds, that enables advertisers to create customized advertisements on-the-fly to be relevant to the individual viewer. As revealed in an article in the New York Times, the advertiser gives the visual and text components of the advertisement to Yahoo, as well as access to its inventory, so the […]
SmartInternet CRC, which was one of our partners for our Web 2.0 in Australia event, has recently released a very interesting report titled IPTV: Order, Chaos and Anarchy, examining the state of IPTV. The author is Mark Pesce, noted for being the co-inventor of VRML (Virtual Reality Markup Language) (which I was a big fan […]
The front page of the IT section in today’s Australian Financial Review sports as its largest story a review of our Web 2.0 in Australia event, titled “Start-ups weave future around social web”. It starts off: “It’s a dreary Sydney afternoon in early June, but social media consultant Ross Dawson couldn’t be happier. He’s surrounded […]
The June issue of BOSS magazine has a very interesting piece titled “Lost in Translation”, which examines the role of building a shared corporate language for employees and clients. (The article is currently available online though AFR often takes these offline after a period.) The article quotes me as follows: “Management consultant Ross Dawson, from […]
There’s currently a massive discussion going on in the blogosphere about a series of Microsoft ads in which they asked prominent bloggers such as Michael Arrington, Om Malik, Fred Wilson, and Richard MacManus (the links are to their comments on the brouhaha) to say what they thought the term “people-ready” meant. These were compiled in […]
David Casaleggio, a media and network consultant based in Milan, let me know about an extremely interesting short video he’s created on the future of media. He has created versions in English, as below, and also subtitled in Japanese and Spanish (recognizing the global nature of media markets). A few highlights in the second half […]
Hmmm…. Not sure whether to take this as a compliment. Cameron Reilly of The Podcast Network and I caught up last week after we both spoke at the Evolve conference. Cameron wrote on his blog : “Caught a taxi to the airport with Ross Dawson and we had a great chat about the Singularity. Ross […]
